Album Of The Week: John Francis Flynn Look Over The Wall, See The Sky

You think you know where you are. The song is called “Within A Mile Of Dublin,” and for any outsider the music indeed soon conjures Ireland. A droning intro comes to life, a whistle leading an old-school reel — the sort of trad folk you can still hear in pubs across the country. Then things morph, mutate. A woman’s voice eerily intones the title, processed drums throb, and electronic sounds hiss and overcome the acoustic instruments at the song’s core. On his new album Look Over The...

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